Monthly Archives: August 2014

Inside my Head: Day 9

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"Tentacle Creature" created by Robert Chapman

I’m really happy with how this guy turned out. Still not exactly sure what it is though, but it looks pretty cool. I kind of wish I tried to add some color, but I don’t want to mess it up. So it’s staying just how it is for now.

My thoughts have been quite complicated and a little confusing lately. Wondering if I’m where I’m supposed to be, or doing all I can to be where I want to be. Or if thinking about that even matters. If I didn’t have the brilliant friends that I have (you know who you are) then thinking this way might lead to negativity and maybe even depression. Instead it all stays positive, and fascinating. Being inside this head sure is quite the adventure.

I’ll be trying my hardest to keep up with my drawing. It’s been incredibly therapeutic for me to get all my thoughts out into my artwork. I haven’t been so good at the daily writing part of my daily posts, but I seem to be getting better as time goes on. It’s more difficult than I thought to write about what I do daily, and what inspires me.

I’m done for now, but I’ll keep doing daily updates. I wonder if it would be a good idea to do a monthly recap where I can reflect on stuff.

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Saturn-like: Day 8

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Saturn

A pretty boring weekend so far. I have zero plans for my Saturday, so I spent a few hours messing around with the different pencils I own. Finding the right colors that I wanted to inevitably use for today’s project. I’m hoping that I can find something else to do today!

Yesterday I created a quick space scene with Photoshop, while today I tried doing something similar with pencils and paper. I only filled out about half of the page, but it turned out pretty good! I did alter a few things in Photoshop after taking the picture. The contrast was adjusted a tad, and I made the stars way brighter than they were with the original. Overall I’m happy with how it turned out, but I think I’ll stick with Photoshop for space scenes in the future. This was a pretty fun project though.

I’m really enjoying going back and forth from digital artwork to the real world stuff. I’m going to keep this up for awhile. I would even like to find other ways to create artwork as well. I have some ideas on how to keep things interesting in the future when I could potentially get bored of using the same two mediums. I’ll keep the ideas to myself for now though. It should be a nice surprise in the future.

 

 

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Space, The Final Frontier: Day 7

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Space Scene created by Robert Chapman

There! I kept my work short today as I’ve barely been home or near an internet connection. I made a nice little Photoshop space scene I made in about 25 minutes. I haven’t done one of these in months. But the last time I made a space scene I made a few sheets of paper (cheat sheets, I guess) to help me create similar effects for future drawings.

I wasn’t sure when I was going to get my drawing done today. At around midnight last night, a friend offered me a bowl of homemade chili. The only catch was that I had to get out of bed, get dressed, and walk over there. I went. And after hanging out and getting home at around 3am, I was wondering when I would find the time to get my daily art post completed the following day. I was actually worried about missing a day. I guess a week is enough time to get into a pretty good routine.

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Versus: Day 6

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Versus

Today was the first day I struggled a bit. I’m pretty sure I’m going to have to focus on drawing things I’m familiar with rather than always trying something new. I would also (as I’m sure I’ve mentioned before) like to try and keep things simple. Not spend hours trying to do something better than the day before. No more of that. Tomorrow I’m just going to keep things simple and not spend hours drawing. There, I’ve written it down on here a few times so far, so I have to listen eventually! Right?

What I drew today is pretty much a comic panel.  I have some books on comic drawing and I might read some tonight so I can try some more comic panel drawing tomorrow. I re-used and edited a couple creatures from my stash today. I threw them together to see how well they would mesh. They definitely look like they are from two completely different worlds, but I love that! Reminds me of Marvel Vs Capcom 2, where you had sprite characters that were clearly from completely different video game series’! Actually, I should somehow do this with some of my other creations. Like a mash-up of everything I’ve done. Whoa, that would be kinda neat actually. I’ll probably never follow through with that idea! It sounds neat in my head, but in practice I don’t think it would work at all as the creatures and worlds I create are too different from one another.

I want to draw people in the future. I mean, well… obviously I want to draw future-people, like with laser guns and stuff, but I mean sometime in the near-future I want to try drawing people. I have to suck it up and just see what I end up with. I know it’ll suck for awhile, as I’ve always avoided drawing people, but I’ll post it anyways. Then continue doing it for a week, or longer, to see if there’s any change. We’ll see. I’m no good at planning things out! I suck at planning almost as much as I suck at drawing people.

 

 

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Inspired by Charcoal: Day 5

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"DragonRising" created by Robert Chapman

Here we are at day number 5! Once again, I was away from my apartment so I have another non-digital drawing. I brought my sketchpad and filled an entire piece of paper with pencil lead. I drew a few different things and this piece took the longest, and is the most interesting. The other drawings I decided to trash were basically like creatures. Or bits of creatures anyways. With this piece though, I didn’t like the clearly visible overlap of where I was coloring everything in, but now it’s kind of neat to see exactly where I shaded and the pattern is pretty neat.

I definitely got my inspiration from reading this interview here with another artist. I love her artwork. I’ve never worked with anything other than pencils, pens, and the digital stuffs. Her charcoal pieces are fantastic. I think everything has an eerie feel to it when it’s done that way. It’s just dark. I love it. I don’t own any charcoal stuff, I just used some 8B pencils and tried my best to take my time, and keep my hands off the page! It’s pretty messy stuff.

I think it’ll be back to digital artwork for tomorrow. I want to do some more work on that lizard thing I drew yesterday. Maybe expand on it. Perhaps into a proper comic book panel or something. At least, that sounds really interesting! We’ll see what I’m in the mood for tomorrow.

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New Website Design: Day 4

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Spine

 

Today I had trouble deciding whether I would draw on paper, or go back to digital. I eventually chose to try digital once I figured out a way to actually get comfortable. As my computer/tablet setup isn’t so great right now. As long as I’m not sitting here for hours on end, hunched over my computer, then I’m more or less fine.

I think it will be right back to proper pencils and paper tomorrow as I don’t plan to be at home for some of the day. Might as well get outside, bring my supplies, and see what I can come up with. Today, I was hoping to do a picture of Angel from the very early X-Men comics. Which I’ve been reading a lot lately. Found a good picture in issue #17, but while I was getting set up I was feeling uneasy about the idea. It’s going to be tough to draw humanoid characters. I’ve never been good at it, even when I try silly looking cartoon characters. Things always look off. We’ll see, still might save that for another day, but I’ll give it some more thought tomorrow.

EDIT: I should also mention down here that I’ve finally designed this website properly. Got some nice header graphics going on up there, and I welcome anybody interested in seeing all kinds of my random artwork to visit the Gallery page. Really happy with how everything is progressing so far!

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Emily and Me: Day 3

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"Old Lines" drawing by Robert Chapman

Lots of fun drawing this with traditional pencils and paper this morning. Haven’t done that in years. Even used my pencil case from high-school. I woke up, took my supplies to my mom’s place, and worked on this while sipping my coffee.

My sister and her youngest daughter, Emily, came by for a visit. Emily and I drew together for an hour or so. She explained her plan for the creature she wanted to draw, and proceeded to follow through with every detail. Here’s what she came up with.

Pencil Drawing by Emily Ponte

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